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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction: is sub-saharan Africa different?

Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2009

This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...

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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? Evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269655

Living wage laws: how much do (can) they matter?

Holzer, Harry J. - 2008

In this paper I review what we have learned about living wage laws and their impacts on the wages, employment and poverty rates of low-wage workers. I review the characteristics of these laws and where they have been implemented to date, and what economic theory tells us about their likely...

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Inequality and employment in a dual economy: enforcement of labor regulation in Brazil

Almeida, Rita K.; Carneiro, Pedro - 2007

This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal workers) leads to: higher unemployment, less income...

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Constrained firms, not subsistence activities: Evidence on capital returns and accumulation in Peruvian microenterprises

Göbel, Kristin; Grimm, Michael; Lay, Jann - 2012

We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. The dynamic analyses of capital accumulation in MEs...

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Political Economy of Industrialization and Industrial Parks in Ethiopia

Kebede, Selamawit G.; Heshmati, Almas - 2023

This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political … used for exploring the role of political economy in Ethiopian industrialization. Different political strategies were … strategies of protectionist import substitution industrialization and the outward strategy of export-oriented industrialization …

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Efficient firm dynamics in a frictional labor market

Kaas, Leo; Kircher, Philipp - 2011

The introduction of firm size into labor search models raises the question how wages are set when average and marginal product differ. We develop and analyze an alternative to the existing bargaining framework: Firms compete for labor by publicly posting long- term contracts. In such a...

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Catch me if you can: education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. …

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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects : Evidence from Brazil

Lemos, Sara - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil?s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. Not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but the minimum wage has also been...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261832

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